On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 15:14 +0100, Gregor Horvath wrote:
> Am Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:12:52 +0100
> schrieb Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly(a)intel.com>:
>
> > On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 15:57 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > > But as Radicale is an example where multiple databases are possible
> > > (in
> > > contrast to Google), it's worth spelling out explicitly how such a
> > > config can be created:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > William, did this work?
> >
> > Perhaps you (or someone else) has the time to turn the instructions
> > into a proper HOWTO? I created a place holder Wiki page for it here:
> > http://syncevolution.org/wiki/synchronizing-radicale
> >
> >
William sent me some debug logs, but then ran out of time. So I've
installed Radicale myself and found an issue that'll break
SyncEvolution: items reported by the server include double slashes in
the path.
<multistatus xmlns="DAV:" xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav">
<response>
<href>/public_user/calendar/calendar_1//1234567890(a)dummy.ics</href>
^^
SyncEvolution will then use /1234567890(a)dummy.ics as path in future
requests, which Radicale rejects with either 404 or 401 errors.
I'll work around that in SyncEvolution. I'm not sure whether there is a
solution with 1.2.2.
Have you considered Calypso (http://keithp.com/blogs/calypso/)? I don't
know yet whether it works with SyncEvolution; if there is interest, then
I will try it.
> I am trying to do the same thing (with one calender to start with)
> N900 <-> radicale but it did not work, because it seems the Maemo
> calendar is not found:
>
> http://pastebin.com/huMXDsEx
>
> What I am doing wrong?
You have additional spaces after your \ character. The slash must be at
the end of each line.
--
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.

Hello!
So far, syncevolution.org binaries were compiled on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04
LTS, which made the binaries compatible with pretty much all distros
since then, including Debian Stable. Since then, another Ubuntu LTS
(Precise Pangolin, 12.04) was released and Debian Wheezy became Debian
Stable this weekend.
Does anyone still need SyncEvolution binaries for Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 and
Debian Squeeze?
I'd like to switch to Ubuntu Precise as new baseline distro because then
binaries can use features from glib 3.32.0, more precisely, the revised
multithreading API. Then SyncEvolution can prevent premature client
timeouts when acting as SyncML HTTP server by running long-running local
storage initialization in a background thread.
--
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.

Hello all!
After almost three months of public beta testing the next major
version of SyncEvolution is ready for release. The pre-releases did
have the desired effect of flushing out bugs not found by nightly
testing alone. Thanks everyone for packaging, downloading and testing
them!
Project status
==============
SyncEvolution synchronizes personal information management (PIM) data
via various protocols (SyncML, CalDAV/CardDAV, ActiveSync). It syncs
contacts, appointments, tasks and memos. It syncs to web services or to
SyncML-capable phones via Bluetooth.
Binaries are available for Linux desktops (using GNOME Evolution, or
KDE's Akonadi), for MeeGo and for Maemo (Nokia N900, N9).
The project moved its bug tracking from bugs.meego.com to
bugs.freedesktop.org. All the old issues were migrated.
Please file new issues here:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=SyncEvolution
The git repositories were also moved to freedesktop.org:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/SyncEvolution/
SyncEvolution 1.3
=================
New features are KDE/Akonadi and ActiveSync support, not only in the
source code but also in syncevolution.org binaries. ActiveSync is the
recommended way of synchronizing contacts with Google:
https://syncevolution.org/wiki/google-contacts-activesync
The D-Bus server and local sync were rewritten considerably, to make
the code cleaner and more robust. The CalDAV backend now also supports
tasks and memos. CalDAV and CardDAV can be used in combination with a
SyncML peer ("bridging SyncML and WebDAV"), thus allowing a device
which only supports SyncML to talk to a WebDAV service without any
intermediate storage.
1.3 contains bug fixes that were not backported to 1.2.x, so upgrading
is recommended. For example, SyncEvolution 1.3 is required for
Evolution 3.4, otherwise photos are not exported properly. Support for
Evolution >= 3.6 is in the source code, but not in syncevolution.org
binaries. Further workarounds for recent changes in Google CalDAV and
Funambol One Media were added.
Upgrading from release 1.2.x
----------------------------
The sync format of existing configurations for Mobical (aka Everdroid)
must be updated manually, because the server has encoding problems when
using vCard 3.0 (now the default for Evolution contacts):
syncevolution --configure \
syncFormat=text/x-vcard \
mobical addressbook
The Funambol template explicitly enables usage of the
"refresh-from-server" sync mode to avoid getting throttled with 417
'retry later' errors. The same must be added to existing configs
manually:
syncevolution --configure \
enableRefreshSync=TRUE \
funambol
Upgrading from releases before 1.2
----------------------------------
Old configurations can still be read. But writing, as it happens
during a sync, must migrate the configuration first. Releases >= 1.2
automatically migrates configurations. The old configurations
will still be available (see "syncevolution --print-configs") but must
be renamed manually to use them again under their original names with
older SyncEvolution releases.
Changes 1.2.2 -> 1.3
====================
* ActiveSync: updated to work with latest activesyncd and Google, package binaries
Syncing Google contacts was added to the nightly testing. Syncing
contacts and events with Exchange 2012 was already working. Setup
instructions and known issues are described here:
https://syncevolution.org/wiki/google-contacts-activesync
* phone sync: delete<->delete conflict + phone calendar+todo sync (BMC #23744)
When deleting an item on phone and locally, the next sync failed with
ERROR messages about "object not found". This has several reasons:
- libsynthesis super data store attempts to read items
which may or may not exist (triggers ERROR message)
- it checks for 404 but Evolution backends only return a generic
database error (causes sync to fail)
* phone sync: get phone vendor and model from Device ID profile (BMC #736)
In the past we have relied on the user-modifiable device name to be
the fingerprint for matching a phone to a template which is unreliable.
This release changes this in the cases where the phone supports the
Device ID profile (DIP). If support for DIP is detected, then we
extract the vendor and product ids and attempt to associate them
with a product and vendor name by using a newly added lookup table.
This lookup table has to be maintained manually and depends on
contributions by users to cover more devices. See
http://blixtra.org/blog/2011/09/22/syncevolution-needs-you-or-at-least-yo...
* vCalendar 1.0: fixed recurring all-day event support
vCalendar 1.0 cannot represent all-day events. The workarounds for
mapping iCalendar 2.0 all-day events into vCalendar 1.0 was
incomplete, leading to effects like shifting EXDATEs and end
times.
* Funambol: ignore UID
Funambol's OneMedia sends UID, but not RECURRENCE-ID. That becomes a
problem when multiple events of the same event series are added to a
backend which follows the iCalendar 2.0 standard (CalDAV, EDS, KDE),
because these events all look like the master event, and there can be
only one of those.
SyncEvolution now strips the UID from all events coming from any
Funambol server (regardless of the version). If a future Funambol
server release adds support for both UID and RECURRENCE-ID, then
SyncEvolution will have to be updated to take advantage of the
improved server. Because the RECURRENCE-ID is also getting
stripped (despite not being set at the moment), SyncEvolution should
continue to work as it does now even if the server changes.
It would have been nice to limit this workaround to affected Funambol
server versions, but an inquiry on the Funambol mailing list didn't
get a reply, therefore SyncEvolution is playing it safe and assumes
that all future Funambol releases will have the same problem.
* Funambol: work around PHOTO TYPE=image/jpeg
A combination of Funambol Android and Funambol server recently led to
the Funambol server sending PHOTO data with TYPE=image/jpeg. This is
invalid and caused EDS to reject the photo (Vladimir Elisseev,
"[SyncEvolution] issues with syncing photos").
Work around the problem by only keeping the part of the type after the
last slash, if there is any. For image/jpeg and similar types that
leads to the desired value and does not affect valid values, because
those do not contain a slash
(http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/index.html).
* Funambol: avoid slow syncs in refresh from server
libsynthesis has traditionally implemented "refresh-from-server" as
"delete local data" plus "slow" sync. This is more compatible, because
some servers (like Google) do not support "refresh-from-server".
But it has the downside that the server cannot know that the client
won't send any data, and Funambol's OneMedia now only allows one slow
sync before blocking the next one for a certain period of time. This is
done to prevent excessive resource usage by badly behaving clients.
To accomodate both kinds of servers, the new "enableRefreshSync"
sync property can be set set to explicitly allow the usage of
the "refresh-from-server" sync mode. It's off by default. The Funambol
template has it turned on, existing configs must be updated manually
(see upgrading comments below).
* Mobical (aka Everdroid): stopped testing memo syncing
Memos used to work, but now only trigger an unspecific 400 error
on the server side.
* GTK-UI: accept service config with a username again (BMC#23106)
Suppressing configs with empty username had undesired side effects:
modifying configs for direct syncing with a device incorrectly
triggered the same error message, without any means of entering
a username. The faulty check was removed without replacement.
* GTK-UI: added GTK 3 version of UI
When GTK 3 is found during compilation, a GTK 3 version of the
UI is built. The source code of both is different to avoid
excessive use of ifdefs. At the moment, both versions offer
the same features. In the long run, the GTK 3 version will
replace the GTK 2 version.
* command line: added refresh/one-way-from-local/remote (BMC #23537)
The -from-client/server sync modes are confusing because the direction
of the data exchange depends on which side acts as SyncML server or
client.
This release introduces new modes which use -from-local/remote
instead. The statistics and messages also use these variants
now. The old modes are still understood, but are declared as "not
recommended" in the documentation.
* command line: config and source names are optional (BMC #23783)
The need to add "foo" and "bar" pseudo config and source names to the
command line even when all parameters for the operation where
explicitly specified on the command line was confusing.
Now it is possible to invoke item operations without the config and
source name. Names which refer to non-existent configs are still
accepted, as in previous releases. Typos are handled better by
producing a detailed error report which includes (as applicable):
- config doesn't exist
- source doesn't exist or not selected
- backend property not set
Because luids used to be positional arguments after <config> and
<source>, a new --luids keyword is necessary to indicate that the
ensuing parameters are luids and not <config> and <source>.
* command line: introduced --print-databases, supported for CalDAV/CardDAV
Listing databases is now a dedicated operation, instead of being done
whenever syncevolution was invoked without parameters.
Advantages:
- can be combined with property assignments for backends
which do not work without that additional information, for example
CalDAV/CardDAV:
syncevolution --print-databases \
backend=[caldav|carddav] \
syncURL=... \
username=... \
password=...
- can be done for configured sources
* command line: use both stdout and stderr
Traditionally, the "syncevolution" command line tool mixed its
INFO/ERROR/DEBUG messages into the normal stdout. This has the major
drawback that error messages get lost during operations like
syncevolution --export - @default addressbook | grep "John Doe"
Now anything which is not the expected result of the operation is
always sent to stderr. Obviously this includes ERROR messages. INFO
and DEBUG are harder to decide. Because they usually convey meta
information about the running operation, they are also sent to
stderr. The output of running a sync goes to both stdout (summary)
and stderr (progress).
* command line: allow setting empty properties
Due to the way how properties were handled internally, it wasn't
possible to explicitly set a property to its default value. Instead
the property was unset. For example, explicitly setting database= was
not possible.
This is necessary for client-test and ActiveSync, because client-test
needs to know that the testing is expected to run with the default
databases (something which normally is avoided by overwriting empty
database properties).
Now the "is set" state is tracked explicitly in the config storage and
command line property APIs. Unsetting a property via the command line
could be implemented with an explicit command line option, but is not
supported at the moment.
* command line: fixed --export <file name>
When exporting items into a file, the delimiter between items
was missing.
* command line + local sync: fixed erroneous "Comparison impossible" output.
"Comparison impossible" was incorrectly printed after a successful
comparison on the target side of local sync.
* local sync: fix timeout with local sync with libdbus
When using libdbus instead of GIO D-Bus (as done by syncevolution.org
binaries and SyncEvolution on Maemo), local sync may have aborted
after 25 seconds when syncing many items with a D-Bus timeout error:
[ERROR] sending message to child failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible ca
Reported by Toke Høiland-Jørgensen for Harmattan. Somehow not encountered
elsewhere.
* synccompare: shorter data dump of PHOTO
A full comparison of the base64 PHOTO data can be very long.
Now some key characteristics of the PHOTO data (number of
characters in base64 encoding, number of bytes in decoded
data, md5sum of decoded data) are printed instead.
That way, unintended changes of the data (different encoding,
different content) should still be found while testing and
added/removed photos are nicely visible in synccompare diffs.
* synccompare: fixed output for byte-identical duplicates
If database dumps contained byte-identical duplicates, they
were treated as a single item on the left side of a comparison.
This caused erroneous "added" entries on the right side.
* secure password storage: usage of GNOME Keyring vs. KDE KWallet configurable
Automatically detecting KDE users is not possible at the
moment. Instead KDE users have to manually set the new "keyring"
global config property to "KDE" (case insensitive) if the
SyncEvolution installation supports both, because GNOME Keyring is the
default to avoid surprises for traditional users. If only KWallet
support is enabled, then this is not necessary.
"GNOME" and "true/false/1/0/yes/no" can also be set. This has the
advantage that keyring usage can be enabled permanently for the
command line in --daemon=no mode; normally keyrings are not used in
that mode because accessing them can bring up UI dialogs.
It also becomes possible to disable keyring usage in syncevo-dbus-server,
something which couldn't be done before.
The --keyring command line option is still supported, as an alias for
"[--sync-property] keyring=<value>". The default value for --keyring
is true, to match the traditional behavior. In contrast to other sync
properties, setting "keyring" does not require an explicit --run
parameter. Again this is done to mirror traditional usage.
* config: improved 'maxlogdirs' documentation
The old explanation made it sound like nothing would get deleted by
default ("If set, ..."). That's not correct, by default only 10
sessions are kept.
Also explain the behavior of deleting intermediate sessions first.
* Evolution: always create databases (PTCOM-113)
Always try to create address book or calendar database, because even
if there is a source there's no guarantee that the actual database
was created already; the original logic for only setting this when
explicitly requesting a new database therefore failed in some cases.
This problem affected users who had never created anything locally
and wanted to use SyncEvolution to migrate their data. Now that
works without having to create dummy entries first.
* Evolution contacts: changed default sync format to vCard 3.0
vCard 3.0 is the better default because it has saner encoding
rules and defines more properties, thus avoiding the need for
non-standard extensions. However, Mobical has problems with
the new default. See upgrade instructions below.
* Evolution: added support for EDS 3.5.x
When compiled against EDS 3.5.x or later, SyncEvolution now uses
the backend code originally written for the EClient API introduced
in EDS 3.2. That code was changed so that it works with the new
include file rules and ESourceRegistry in EDS 3.5.x. Support
for using the EClient API with EDS 3.4 was removed because maintaining
three different flavors of the EDS backend code would be too much
work and not gain much (just the possibility to test the EDSClient
code with 3.4).
At the moment, this is a compile time choice made automatically
by configure. syncevolution.org binaries are compiled against
an older EDS and thus do not work with EDS 3.5.x or later.
EDS 3.5.x handles authentication itself, using a standard system
prompt if necessary. SyncEvolution can no longer provide the password,
and thus the "databaseUser/Password" options have no effect when using
EDS 3.5.x.
* D-Bus server: fixed HTTP presence for recent libdbus
Testing with libdbus 1.6.0 on Debian Testing failed because the lib
changed some behavior: instead of looking up the owner of a certain
bus name immediately, it now does that when invoking a
method. Therefore the check for "have connection" in SyncEvolution
was too simplistic and missed the fact that both were not usable,
causing the server to assume that HTTP was down while in reality it
should have assumed it to be up. This prevented auto-syncing and
manually clicking "Sync" in the GTK UI.
* D-Bus server: made notification verbosity configurable with "notifyLevel"
The new "notifyLevel" per-peer configuration option allows users to
control how many desktop notifications the D-Bus server produces while
executing an automatic sync:
0 - suppress all notifications
1 - show only errors
2 - show information about changes and errors (in practice currently the same as level 3)
3 - show all notifications, including starting a sync (default)
* WebDAV: fixed data corruption issue when uploading item with long UID
In some cases data with a very long UID wasn't handled correctly,
causing the out-going data to be malformed and probably causing a
rejection by the server. The root cause is incorrect string handling.
In releases before 1.2.99.1, only the --import operation of contacts
into CardDAV were affected. In 1.2.99.1, the same code also got used
for calendar items and then could also affect syncing.
* CalDAV: updated Google workarounds
Google started sending empty items (VCALENDAR with no VEVENT inside)
which cannot be removed. SyncEvolution 1.3 ignores such items.
The workaround for a 404 from Google Calendar for a GET (sending a
REPORT request matching the item's UID) was broken: first, processing
the result ended up calling the unset responseEnd boost function
pointer, which caused the request to fail. Second, getting multiple
items wasn't handled (data from all items concatenated together was
used).
That can happen in the somewhat unlike case that some items have a UID
which is a complete superset of the requested UID - not realistic in
real life, but happens during testing.
* Google Calendar: updated URL redirect handling
Google Calendar sometimes returns redirect requests to human-readable
web sites (an "unavailable" page, a login form). This is of course
bogus when the client is an automated CalDAV client.
The "unavailable.html" case was already handled. Made it a bit more
flexible to also catch possible variations of it (additional
parameters, https instead of http).
Added the https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin case. Not sure
whether retrying will help in that case, but there's not much else
that SyncEvolution can do.
* WebDAV: bridge with SyncML
Now a peer accessed via SyncML can read/write data stored in a
CalDAV/CardDAV server directly. This can be used to connect a device
which only supports SyncML to a CalDAV/CardDAV server, or sync data
between a SyncML server and a CalDAV/CardDAV server. See "CalDAV and
CardDAV" in the README for details.
* WebDAV: improved --configure
Added INFO output about checking sources. This helps with WebDAV when
the server cannot be contacted (dead, misconfigured) because otherwise
there would be no indication at all why the --configure operation
seems to hang.
Here is some example output, including aborting:
$ syncevolution --configure --template webdav \
syncURL=http://192.168.1.100:9000/ \
username=foo password=bar retryDuration=2s \
target-config@webdav-temp
[INFO] creating configuration target-config@webdav-temp
[INFO] addressbook: looking for databases...
[INFO] addressbook: no database to synchronize
[INFO] calendar: looking for databases...
[INFO] calendar: no database to synchronize
[INFO] memo: looking for databases...
[INFO] memo: no database to synchronize
[INFO] todo: looking for databases...
[INFO] todo: no database to synchronize
It timed out fairly quickly here because of the retryDuration=2s. That
also gets placed in the resulting config, which is probably not desired.
Aborting the operation is now supported:
$ syncevolution --configure \
--template webdav \
syncURL=http://192.168.1.100:9000/ \
username=foo password=bar \
target-config@webdav-temp
[INFO] creating configuration target-config@webdav-temp
[INFO] addressbook: looking for databases...
^C[INFO] Asking to suspend...
[INFO] Press CTRL-C again quickly (within 2s) to stop immediately (can cause problems in the future!)
^C[INFO] Aborting immediately ...
[ERROR] error code from SyncEvolution aborted on behalf of user (local, status 20017): aborting as requested by user
It would be good to make the CTRL-C handling code aware that it can
abort immediately instead of doing the intermediate "asking to suspend"
step, which only makes sense for sync sessions.
* WebDAV: support tasks and memos (BMC #24893)
The new backend property values "CalDAVTodo" and "CalDAVJournal"
select tasks resp. memos stored in a CalDAV collection. "CalDAV"
continues to select events.
Events, tasks and journals can be mixed in the same resource (=
URL). However, this is less efficient than storing them separately.
A good CalDAV server allows filtering items by type, and SyncEvolution
uses that. However, it was found that Radicale 0.7 ignores this
filtering, which could have led to data loss (SyncEvolution asks for
all VTODOs in preparation for a "delete all items" operation in a
"CalDAVTodo" source, gets also VJOURNALs, then deletes them).
Therefore SyncEvolution plays it safe and downloads the VTODO and
VJOURNAL data to double-check that it is working on the right items.
This causes additional traffic for well-behaving servers; currently
it cannot be turned off.
Tasks are exchanged as vCalendar 1.0 or iCalendar 2.0 VJOURNAL.
Memos are exchanged as VTODO or plain text. The logic for storing
incoming plain text is slightly different compared to the way how
the EDS memo backend did it: instead of copying the first line
from the text into the summary, it is now moved. In other words,
the first line gets stripped. The change is primarily technically
motivated; both approaches have pros and cons.
* WebDAV: improved Radicale support
Radicale > 0.7 will return status 200 for delete requests;
is now treated like 204 by SyncEvolution. 412 'Preconditiona Failed'
when asking to delete an already removed item is treated like
the more common 404 'not found'. Same with 410 'gone' instead
of 404 when trying to read a non-existent item.
* CalDAV/CardDAV sync: improved target side output
Added a "target side of local sync ready" INFO message to introduce
the output which has the target context in the [INFO] tag. The sync report
from the target side now has the target context embedded in brackets
after the "Changes applied during synchronization" header, to avoid
ambiguities.
Sometimes the backend has to resend requests because of temporary
issues. If the problem turned out to be permanent, there was a long
period of time, retryDuration=5 minutes to be precice, in which no
visible progress happened.
Now SyncEvolution's WebDAV backend will print a message like this
before going to sleep until it is time to retry:
[INFO @googlecalendar] operation temporarily (?) failed, going to retry in 5.0s before giving up in 18.4s: PROPFIND: Neon error code 1: 401 Unauthorized
The uncertainty comes from several factors. In this example, the 401
might indicate a permanent problem (wrong credentials), or it could be
Google reporting a temporary authorization problem which is (probably)
meant to slow down the client while it asks the user to re-enter the
password. SyncEvolution only asks for passwords once, so it tries
again with the same password if it was successful with it in the
past. Otherwise it gives up immediately.
Another dubious example are name server lookup errors. They can be
permanent (wrong host name) or temporary (name server
down). SyncEvolution errs on the side of retrying, to avoid
interrupting an operation which still has a chance to continue.
Output from the target side of a local sync was passed through stderr
redirection as chunks of text to the frontends. This had several
drawbacks:
- forwarding only happened when the local sync parent was processing
the output redirection, which (due to limitations of the implementation)
only happens when it needs to print something itself
- debug messages were not forwarded
- message boundaries might have been lost
In particular the new INFO messages are relevant while the sync runs
and need to be shown immediately.
* WebDAV: --status for WebDAV source aborted
The command line --status operation did not complete when applied to a
CalDAV/CardDAV source. Instead it aborted because the operation took a
code path where the backend was not fully initialized.
* file backend: more flexible sync support for memos
The databaseFormat=text/calendar for memos did not support
synchronizing as plain text. When using the new
databaseFormat=text/calendar+plain, vCalendar/iCalendar/plain text
are all valid sync formats; the storage is iCalendar 2.0
VJOURNAL in all cases.
* WebDAV: avoid potential crash during database detection
When a server responds to a PROPFIND for a path with results for some
other path, then SyncEvolution crashed during the search for the
default calendar or address book because of a bug in the code which
was meant to handle that kind of response. Apparently Yahoo Calendar
did that. Now seen again in combination with Radicale 0.6.4.
In general, the code was made more robust to cope with bugs in
Radicale 0.6.4. Later Radicale versions fixed these issues and also
worked with SyncEvolution 1.2.2 without client-side workarounds.
* WebDAV: better path normalization
"syncURL" and "database" properties had to end in a trailing slash,
otherwise items were not found (404 errors). Now the necessary slash
is added automatically.
* Curl transport: support SSLServerCertificates=<path>
When the setting refers to a directory, then CURLOPT_CAINFO doesn't
work (must be a file). Check this and use CURLOPT_CAPATH instead.
Caveat: there are some comments in the API documentation about "NSS
enabled libcurl" which supports a directory in
CURLOPT_CAINFO. Hopefully providing an explicit path in CURLOPT_CAPATH
also works in that configuration.
* code cleanup + rewrite: syncing done in separate process
syncevo-dbus-server now runs syncing in a separate process. Local
sync also uses a second helper process. This makes the D-Bus server
more responsive via D-Bus (no more blocking operations) and
minimizes the effect of bugs in code involved with syncing
(backends, system libraries, etc.).
In the long term this restructuring will also allow more advanced
features, like monitoring local or remote storage for changes.
* SyncEvolution <-> SyncEvolution sync: multiple cycles per session
SyncML only allows one send/receive cycle per session. There are cases
(for example, client side merges data that a dumber server failed to
match correctly) where client and server are still out of sync at
the end of a cycle. When SyncEvolution syncs with another SyncEvolution
instance (locally or remotely), both sides detect that the peer
can continue syncing in the same session and start over automatically
when needed. Previously the user had to start another sync session manually.
To the user this is shown as "number of cycles" in a sync session
in the sync report. "Restart" is the process of entering a new cycle.
The cycles are also visible in the command line output as multiple
INFO lines:
[INFO] eds_contact: starting first time sync from client (peer is server)
[INFO] creating complete data backup of source eds_contact before sync (enabled with dumpData and needed for prin
Local data changes to be applied during synchronization:
*** eds_contact ***
no changes
[INFO] eds_contact: sent 1/1
[INFO] eds_contact: started
[INFO] eds_contact: first time sync done successfully
[INFO] eds_contact: starting normal sync from client (peer is server) <===
[INFO] eds_contact: started <===
[INFO] eds_contact: normal sync done successfully <===
[INFO] creating complete data backup after sync (enabled with dumpData and needed for printChanges)
Synchronization successful.
Changes applied during synchronization:
+---------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-CON-+
| | LOCAL | REMOTE | FLI |
| Source | NEW | MOD | DEL | ERR | NEW | MOD | DEL | ERR | CTS |
+---------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| eds_contact | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| refresh-from-local, 2 cycles, 0 KB sent by client, 0 KB received |
^^^^^^^^
| item(s) in database backup: 1 before sync, 1 after it |
+---------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| start Tue Feb 7 17:07:49 2012, duration 0:03min |
| synchronization completed successfully |
+---------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
* SyncEvolution <-> SyncEvolution sync: negotiate UID support via SyncCap (BMC #22783)
The semantic of UID/RECURRENCE-ID in calendar data is now tracked
per data store involved in a sync. If full iCalendar 2.0 semantic
(= IDs are globally unique) is guaranteed, then pairs are found
based on these IDs. Otherwise pairs must be found by looking at
item attributes.
Previously a hack was used to detect this kind of support (any kind
of SyncEvolution instance was assumed to support it, although some
backends do not).
* engine: add DTSTAMP+LAST-MODIFIED before writing calendar items
When writing calendar items into a backend storage as iCalendar 2.0 or
vCalendar 1.0, they should have DTSTAMP and LAST-MODIFIED values. DTSTAMP
is expected by some CalDAV servers (like Apple). LAST-MODIFIED is usually
added by the storage, but not always.
In the text/plain -> syncevolution -> text/calendar -> Radicale -> EDS
-> syncevolution chain the LAST-MODIFIED was not added by Radicale, which caused
problems for change tracking in an EDS-based SyncEvolution.
Also necessary when importing from a phone using vCalendar without
DTSTAMP directly into CalDAV.
* autotools: ensure that link lines are complete
As mentioned by Tino Keitel on the mailing list, some libs and
executables were only implicitly linked against libraries that they
called directly. This happened to work by chance because these libraries
ended up in the running executable anyway, due to indirect loading.
Now there is a "make installcheck" test for this kind of defect
and the makefiles were updated to avoid it.
One exception is libsmltk, which depends on the caller providing
SySync logging support.
* syncevolution.org packages: fixed D-Bus server autostart in .deb and .rpm packages
syncevo-dbus-server wasn't started automatically as part of a user
session because /etc/xdg/autostart/syncevo-dbus-server.desktop wasn't
included in the packages. This broke auto syncing after a session
restart (required manually starting SyncEvolution).
* syncevolution.org packages: support KDE
The traditional "syncevolution-evolution" package was
replaced with "syncevolution-bundle". A meta "syncevolution-evolution"
package depends on it, to support seamless updates for users who have
"syncevolution-evolution" installed.
Binary dependencies of the main .deb are ignored for backends
because loading them is optional. The new "syncevolution-kde"
package has the right dependencies for KDE/Akonadi, while
"syncevolution-evolution" mostly just lists standard libs
if the "EDS compatibility" mode is used, where libebook/libecal
are loaded dynamically.
Platform specific code (GNOME keyring, KDE wallet) was moved into
loadable, optional modules, to allow installation of the SyncEvolution
bundle without forcing the installation of unused system components.
* D-Bus: use GIO D-Bus instead of libdbus if available
When compiling from source, the more modern GIO D-Bus is used instead
of libdbus if available and recent enough (>= 2.30). syncevolution.org
binaries still use libdbus, to stay compatible with older Linux
distros.
* several minor bug fixes
syncevo-dbus-server now runs under valgrind in the nightly testing,
plus several more test scenarios were added. This helped to find
and fix various minor memory handling issues.
* developers: backend API changes
beginSync/endSync() (aka m_startDataRead/m_endDataWrite) may now be
called multiple times per SyncSource instance life cycle. SyncSources
derived from TrackingSyncSource should work without changes. Use the
Client::Source::*::testChangesMultiCycles test to check whether your
backend supports this correctly.
Reading and deleting must throw a 404 status exception when an item
is not found. The Client::Source::*::*404 tests cover this.
The special semantic of the former RegisterSyncSource::InactiveSource
(invalid pointer of value 1) caused bugs, like using it in
--print-databases (=> segfault) or not being able to store the result
of a createSource() directly in a smart pointer (=> potential leak in
SyncSource::createSource()).
Obviously a bad idea to start with. Replaced with a
RegisterSyncSource::InactiveSource() method which creates a real,
inactive SyncSource instance which can and must be deleted by the
caller.
This is a SyncSource API change for backend developers. Instead of
RegisterSyncSource::InactiveSource, return
RegisterSyncSource::InactiveSource(). Comparisons against
RegisterSyncSource::InactiveSource needs to be replaced with a call
to the new SyncSource::isInactive().
Long-running backend calls are encouraged to check for events on the
main glib context (either in a loop or with
g_main_context_iteration(NULL)) and abort when
SuspendFlags::getSuspendFlags().getState() returns
SuspendFlags::ABORT.
Implementing the improved local sync output required extending the
D-Bus API. The Server.LogOutput signal now has an additional
"process name" parameter. Normally it is empty. For messages
originating from the target side, it carries that extra target
context string.
This D-Bus API change is backward compatible. Older clients can still
subscribe to and decode the LogOutput messages, they'll simply ignore
the extra parameter. Newer clients expecting that extra parameter
won't work with an older D-Bus daemon: they'll fail to decode the
D-Bus message.
* packagers:
libgdbussyncevo is now installed as a normal library in /usr/lib,
even though SyncEvolution is the only user.
pcrecpp is now a new hard dependency.
Changes 1.2.99.4 -> 1.3
=======================
* D-Bus server + GIO D-Bus: shutdown fix
When compiled against GIO D-Bus (not the case in syncevolution.org
binaries), the syncevo-dbus-server occasionally shut down before
sending out all pending D-Bus messages. Showed up only in nightly
testing.
* D-Bus server + GIO D-Bus: fix auto-activation (Debian bug #599247)
When syncevo-dbus-server was started on demand by the D-Bus daemon,
then it registered itself with the daemon before it was ready to
serve requests. Only happened in combination with GIO D-Bus and
thus was not a problem before 1.2.99.x.
One user-visible effect was that the GTK UI did not select the default
service when it was started for the first time, because it could not
retrieve that information from syncevo-dbus-server.
* local sync: fix timeout with local sync with libdbus
When using libdbus instead of GIO D-Bus (as done by syncevolution.org
binaries and SyncEvolution on Maemo), local sync may have aborted
after 25 seconds when syncing many items with a D-Bus timeout error:
[ERROR] sending message to child failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible ca
Reported by Toke Høiland-Jørgensen for Harmattan. Somehow not encountered
elsewhere.
* KDE: check for D-Bus to avoid crash in KApplication (BMC #25596)
Some unnamed version of KDE crashes in KApplication when invoked
without a D-Bus session. The reporter ran into this when compiling
from source, because the SyncEvolution binary is invoked as part of
the build process, which ran outside of a D-Bus session.
Avoid the crash by checking for a D-Bus session bus before instantiating
KApplication. Instantiating KApplication was added for KWallet support.
Without D-Bus, KWallet does not work either, therefore throw an explicit
error when the lack of D-Bus is detected.
* Funambol: work around PHOTO TYPE=image/jpeg
A combination of Funambol Android and Funambol server recently led to
the Funambol server sending PHOTO data with TYPE=image/jpeg. This is
invalid and caused EDS to reject the photo (Vladimir Elisseev,
"[SyncEvolution] issues with syncing photos").
Work around the problem by only keeping the part of the type after the
last slash, if there is any. For image/jpeg and similar types that
leads to the desired value and does not affect valid values, because
those do not contain a slash
(http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/index.html).
* syncevo-http-server: fixed printing of server debug output
Python failed to call logSyncEvoOutput() after adding the additional
'process' parameter to LogOutput because it extracts all four
parameters and then cannot pass them to logSyncEvoOutput().
Now logSyncEvoOutput() uses the new process information to instantiate
a logger with the right prefix, using 'sync' as fallback for messages
without that information (as before).
* Some minor code and test cleanup.
Source, Installation, Further information
=========================================
http://syncevolution.org/blogs/pohly/2012/syncevolution-13-released
Source code bundles for users are available in
http://downloads.syncevolution.org/syncevolution/sources
and the original source is in the git repositories
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/SyncEvolution/
i386, lpia and amd64 binaries for Debian-based distributions are
available via the "stable" syncevolution.org repository. Add the
following entry to your /apt/source.list:
deb http://downloads.syncevolution.org/apt stable main
Then install "syncevolution-evolution", "syncevolution-kde" and/or
"syncevolution-activesync".
These binaries include the "sync-ui" GTK GUI and were compiled for
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy), except for "syncevolution-activesync" which
depends on libraries in Debian Squeeze, for example EDS 3.4.
Older distributions like Debian 4.0 (Etch) can no longer be supported
with precompiled binaries because of missing libraries, but the source
still compiles when not enabling the GUI (the default).
The same binaries are also available as .tar.gz and .rpm archives in
http://downloads.syncevolution.org/syncevolution/. In contrast
to 0.8.x archives, the 1.x .tar.gz archives have to be unpacked and the
content must be moved to /usr, because several files would not be found
otherwise.
After installation, follow the
http://syncevolution.org/documentation/getting-started steps.
--
Patrick Ohly, on behalf of everyone who has helped
to make SyncEvolution possible:
http://syncevolution.org/about/contributors

Google carddav stopped working, but there was no announcement.
The only reference I could find was this thread:
https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists/arc/users/2013-04/msg00008.html
I used to connect with this configuration:
--CODE--
syncevolution --keyring=no --configure \
username=<user>@gmail.com \
password=<password> \
addressbook/backend=carddav \
addressbook/database=https://google.com/m8/carddav/principals/__uids__/de...
\
target-config@webdav \
addressbook
--/CODE--
It fails with:
--OUTPUT--
[INFO] addressbook: backend failed: error code from SyncEvolution object
not found (remote, status 404): PROPFIND: Neon error code 1: 404 Not
Found
[ERROR] error code from SyncEvolution object not found (remote, status
404): PROPFIND: Neon error code 1: 404 Not Found
--/OUTPUT--
Lack of complains indicates that iPod/Pad/Phone and windows[78] phone
sync still works.
So it might be true that google started whitelisting the server.
Can anyone confirm this?
Is anybody working on a google-api for syncevolution?

Hi,
Google made caldav & carddav api public again ( http://goo.gl/8i81d ) &
changed their calendar api-end point from
" https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/<CALID>/events"
to
" https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/<CALID>/events".
But new api-end point doesn't work with basic http authentication. And
old end-point will stop working after 16 September, 2013.
I tried with following command:
SYNCEVOLUTION_DEBUG=1 syncevolution --print-items --daemon=no \
loglevel=4 \
username=myusername(a)gmail.com \
password=***** \
database=https://apidata.googleusercontent.com:443/caldav/v2/GOOGLECALENDARID@group.calendar.google.com/events/ \
backend=caldav
It failed with " HTTP 401 Unauthorized" response code as mentioned in
google-developer page.
Here is the log ( http://paste.ubuntu.com/5862621/ ).
I am currently documenting a Ubuntu-wiki for syncevolution
( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SyncEvolution) &
calendar-synchronisation
method documented there will not work after 16 sept.
Hence the obvious question: Will next release of Syncevolution support
Google-Auth?
Thank You.

Hello!
Let me write down some thoughts about how SyncEvolution handles
credentials and authentication, in particular with regards to web
services.
The most pressing need to do something about this comes from Google's
move away from username/password-based authentication towards OAuth2 in
CalDAV/CardDAV. By September there needs to be a SyncEvolution which
supports that, because by that time Google will turn off the old method.
Another motivation was mentioned in a previous discussion of that topic
([1], [2]): username/password sometimes must be set multiple times in
the current config.
Whatever we do about this, let's consider a few things:
* Some services, in particular SyncML, only work with
username/password, so SyncEvolution needs a way to retrieve
both.
* Other services, in particular Google CalDAV/CardDAV, depend on
an OAuth2 based mechanism. SyncEvolution needs to recognize
this, possibly after trying to use them, and then retrieve the
necessary token from an OAuth2 implementation.
* OAuth2 grants access to clients, which identify themselves with
a key. Abuse of that key may lead to blacklisting that key and
thus preventing access to the service. Possibly the creator of
that key will also be banned such that he or she cannot create
new keys. For SyncEvolution that means that sharing the same key
with everyone is a bad idea. Whoever compiles SyncEvolution
should at least have to make a conscious choice about which key
he uses. For binaries that I publish on syncevolution.org, a key
for Google needs to be included. There's no effective measure
for keeping that key secret, so I might as well publish it on
syncevolution.org and allow individuals to use it when compiling
SyncEvolution for themselves.
* Part of the initial usage of an OAuth2 based service is a dialog
via a web browser where the web service confirms that access
should be granted. In that case, the password for the service is
only handed to the web server, not to SyncEvolution itself or
the entity handling OAuth2. Of course, because the password
typically gets entered on the local computer, this is still not
perfectly secure.
* Some users therefore won't care that much where they enter their
password. Quite the opposite, entering the password in advance
is useful in cases where such an interactive login is not
possible or difficult, for example on a server where X is not
running or which has no web browser installed.
* In some cases, a pop-up asking for OAuth2 confirmation is
desirable, sometimes it isn't. Need to define when to use it and
when (and how) to fail with a authentication error.
In [1] I proposed to introduce a new property that describes where
username/password are stored. In retrospect I find that too limited and
unnecessarily complex. Here's a different approach, based on
interpreting the "username" value differently.
So far, "username = <value>" had a username as it had to be given to a
service as <value>. Let's extend that with one indirection:
"username = [<sso-module>:]<identity>|<username>"
<sso-module> is the identifier of some system which can provide more
information about <identity>. There must be a SyncEvolution plugin which
makes that system and its identifier known to SyncEvolution, similar to
how src/backends/[kde|gnome] currently provide access to KWallet and
GNOME keyring.
I can think of five different such backends:
* gSSO = glib-Single-Sign-On - https://01.org/gsso
* uoa = Ubuntu Online Accounts -
http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/technologies/online-accounts/
* goa = GNOME Online Accounts -
https://developer.gnome.org/goa/stable/
* user = traditional username/password setting, only needed in
cases where the username happens to start with one of the
prefixes above
* id = a central identity managed by SyncEvolution
"user" works without any additional configuration. The "password"
property provides the password. OAuth2 is not supported.
"id" enables sharing of credentials between different parts of a
SyncEvolution config tree without depending on an external system. The
<identity> string is the name of a normal peer config. Username/password
can be stored for that peer as usual. It can even be used for syncing,
if that is desired, but it is not necessary to do so. To mark a peer
which is just used as a placeholder for credentials,
"peerType=credentials" would be used. The GTK UI ignores all peers whose
type it doesn't recognize (to be checked - at least that was the plan at
some point). The "id" mechanism could be extended at some point to also
support OAuth2 natively, perhaps using liboauth.
"gSSO" and "uoa" use the same libaccounts-glib client library and
different implementations on the server side. I've been told that some
of these server-side differences leak through the common client API, so
backends might be very similar, but not quite identical.
Backends for "gSSO", "uoa" and will be expected to map the <identity>,
a service identifier and a realm (or is it scope?) to a
username/password combination (for a traditional login mechanism,
similar to local password storage in GNOME keyring or KWallet) or the
OAuth2 access token.
For SyncML, the service identifier would be the sync URL. For
WebDAV/CardDAV, it probably will come from the challenge sent by the
server when it asks for authentication. The realm would be the string
that Google uses to identify calendar or contact access.
SyncEvolution must be aware enough of that mechanism to provide the
backend with the client key that it got compiled with for the service
and realm. TBD: passing valid username/password to the backend for later
use, instead of prompting the user.
Let me stop here for today.
To do next:
- Add usage examples for "id".
- Walk through specific flow for Google CalDAV and CardDAV, including
the configure options needed to provide the keys and what the SSO
backend would get from SyncEvolution.
My plan is to work on the infrastructure, a backend using gSSO/id and
the OAuth2 usage in the CalDAV/CardDAV backend. Anything else would
depend on outside contributors.
Something else not in scope is automatic configuration, like
automatically setting up syncing against all calendars or address books
becoming available once a Google account is available in the central
account system. Such functionality clearly would be useful, but it is
also very system specific.
Such functionality can be implemented by a plugin for
syncevo-dbus-server, similar to how the PIM Manager
(src/dbus/server/pim) runs inside the main event loop of the
syncevo-dbus-server and sets up configs for PBAP syncing for IVI use
cases [3].
[1] https://lists.syncevolution.org/pipermail/syncevolution/2011-May/002257.html
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52917
[3] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mobile.syncevolution/4009
--
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.

Hello!
So far the development cycle for SyncEvolution 1.4 mostly focused on
implementing the "PIM Manager" D-Bus API for IVI use cases [1]. The
1.3.99.3 pre-release starts to include more features and bug fixes again
for syncing. For example, several ActiveSync improvements from Graham
Cobb were included.
The remaining goal for 1.4, besides more testing of course, is to work
out how to support Google CalDAV and CardDAV. I am in discussion with
Google to get SyncEvolution whitelisted [2] for use with these APIs -
fingers crossed...
[1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mobile.syncevolution/4009
[2] http://googleblog.blogspot.de/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html
Upgrading from release 1.2.x
----------------------------
The sync format of existing configurations for Mobical (aka Everdroid)
must be updated manually, because the server has encoding problems when
using vCard 3.0 (now the default for Evolution contacts):
syncevolution --configure \
syncFormat=text/x-vcard \
mobical addressbook
The Funambol template explicitly enables usage of the
"refresh-from-server" sync mode to avoid getting throttled with 417
'retry later' errors. The same must be added to existing configs
manually:
syncevolution --configure \
enableRefreshSync=TRUE \
funambol
Upgrading from releases before 1.2
----------------------------------
Old configurations can still be read. But writing, as it happens
during a sync, must migrate the configuration first. Releases >= 1.2
automatically migrates configurations. The old configurations
will still be available (see "syncevolution --print-configs") but must
be renamed manually to use them again under their original names with
older SyncEvolution releases.
Changes 1.3.2 -> 1.3.99.3
=========================
* PIM Manager: add ReplaceSearch, always allow it
The new ReplaceSearch is more flexible than RefineSearch. It can
handle both tightening the search and relaxing it. The downside of it
is the more expensive implementation (must check all contacts again,
then find minimal set of change signals to update view).
Previously, a search which had no filter set at all at the begining
could not be refined. This limitation of the implementation gets
removed by always using a FilteredView, even if the initial filter is
empty.
* PIM Manager: introduce CreateConfig()
That SetPeer() allows modifying and creating a config leads to race
conditions when multiple clients want to create a config. The new
CreateConfig() avoids that by atomically checking that a config does
not exist yet and creating it.
SetPeer() is still available for backwards compatibility. It continues
to be used for modifying an existing config in TestContacts.testSync
to check the effect of the logging settings.
* PIM Manager: fix double entries in filtered search with limit
Stressing the FilteredView by using it in tests originally written
for the FullView showed that the filling up a view may have
used data while it was inconsistent internally, leading to
contacts being present multiple times.
* PIM Manager and sync: support location = GEO property (FDO #60373)
Exposed as "location" -> (lat, long) in the D-Bus bindings.
Reading, writing and updating are supported.
* PIM Manager: support groups = CATEGORIES (FDO #60380)
Allow reading and writing of groups (folks terminology), aka
CATEGORIES in vCard.
* PIM Manager: intelligent phone search in EDS (part of FDO #59571)
If phone number search is enabled in EDS, then the direct search in
EDS now uses the more accurate
E_BOOK_QUERY_EQUALS_NATIONAL_PHONE_NUMBER comparison, with the E164
formatted caller ID as value to compare against. This gives
semantically correct results. The previous solution (now the
fallback) had to use substring searches, which did not match if the
contact's phone number was not formatted according to E164 and
which may have matched the wrong contacts if the trailing numbers
are the same.
* PIM Manager : use pre-computed normalized phone numbers from EDS (part of FDO #59571)
When available, the pre-computed E164 number from EDS will be used
instead of doing one libphonebook parser run for each telephone
number while reading. Benchmarking showed that this parsing was the
number one hotspot, so this is a considerable improvement.
* PIM Manager: fix error messages
Ensure and check that no unnecessary ERROR messages are printed.
libfolks was used slightly incorrectly, leading to several
harmless error messages (glib asserts). libphonenumber printed
its error messages to stdout.
* PIM Manager: fix memory leaks during writing of contacts
Constructing the GValues created additional references instead
of taking over ownership as intended.
* D-Bus server: fix read-after-free bug when using syslog
openlog() expects the string to remain valid. Must ensure that in
LoggerSyslog by making a copy. Found with valgrind.
* PIM Manager: make implementation of some of the D-Bus methods thread-safe
The goal is to make it easier to extend syncevo-dbus-server
with other IPC mechanisms, which then can call the native C++
code directly.
That code was not prepared to handle calls in threads other than the
main one. Now this is checked when entering the methods and work is
shifted to the main thread if necessary. In the meantime the calling
thread waits for completion.
* PIM Manager: check responsiveness (part of FDO #60851)
Enhanced the testActive test so that it can detect when the D-Bus
server stops responding for too long. One major reason for that was
event processing in folks, which got improved as part of
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694385
* PIM Manager: adapt to gee 0.8
Changed the code to compile with gee 0.8, as used by folks 0.9.x.
Older versions of folks are no longer supported.
* PBAP: support Bluez 5
The new Bluez 5 API is the third supported API for doing PBAP
transfers. It gets checked first, then the PBAB backend falls back to
new-style obexd (file based, similar to Bluez 5, but not quite the
same) and finally old-style obexd (data transfer via D-Bus).
In contrast to previous APIs, Bluez 5 does not report the reason for a
failed PBAP transfer. SyncEvolution then throws a generic "transfer
failed" error with "reason unknown" as message.
* command line: recover from slow sync with new sync modes
The error message for an unexpected slow sync still mentioned
the old and obsolete "refresh-from-client/server" sync modes.
Better mention "refresh-from-local/remote".
* CalDAV: more workarounds for Google CalDAV + unique IDs
Google became even more strict about checking REV. Tests which
reused a UID after deleting the original item started to fail sometime
since middle of December 2012.
* CalDAV: work around Google server regression (undeclared namespace prefix in XML)
Google CalDAV for a while (December 2012 till January 2013) sent
invalid XML back when asked to include CardDAV properties in a
PROPFIND. This got rejected in the XML parser, which prevents
syncing calendar data:
Neon error code 1: XML parse error at line 55: undeclared namespace prefix
In the meantime Google fixed the issue in response to a bug report
via email. But the workaround, only asking for the properties which
are really needed, still makes sense and thus is kept.
* WebDAV: don't send Basic Auth via http proactively (FDO #57248)
Sending basic authentication headers via http is insecure. Only do
it proactively when the connection is encrypted and thus protects
the information or when the server explicitly asks for it.
* Nokia: always add TYPE=INTERNET to EMAIL (FDO #61784)
Without the explicit TYPE=INTERNET, email addresses sent to a Nokia
e51 were not shown by the phone and even got lost eventually (when
syncing back).
This commit ensures that the type is set for all emails sent to any
Nokia phone, because there may be other phones which need it and
phones which don't, shouldn't mind. This was spot-checked with a N97
mini, which works fine with and without the INTERNET type.
This behavior can be disabled again for specific Nokia phones by
adding a remote rule which sets the addInternetEmail session variable
to FALSE again.
Non-Nokia phones can enable the feature in a similar way, by setting
the variable to TRUE.
* SyncML: config option for broken peers
Some peers have problems with meta data (CtCap, old Nokia phones)
and the sync mode extensions required for advertising the restart
capability (Oracle Beehive). The default in SyncEvolution is to
advertise the capability, so manual configuration is necessary when
working with a peer that fails in that mode.
Because the problem occurs when SyncEvolution contacts the peers
before it gets the device information from the peer, dynamic rules
based on the peer identifiers cannot be used. Instead the local config
must already disable these extra features in advance.
The "SyncMLVersion" property gets extended for this. Instead of just
"SyncMLVersion = 1.0" (as before) it now becomes possible to say
"SyncMLVersion = 1.0, noctcap, norestart".
"noctcap" disables sending CtCap. "norestart" disables the sync mode
extensions and thus doing multiple sync cycles in the same session
(used between SyncEvolution instances in some cases to get client and
server into sync in one session).
Both keywords are case-insensitive. There's no error checking for
typos, so beware!
The "SyncMLVersion" property was chosen because it was already in use
for configuring SyncML compatibility aspects and adding a new property
would have been harder.
* ActiveSync: added support for specifying folder names
Previously, the database field was interpreted as a Collection ID. This adds
logic to allow the database to be interpreted as a folder path. The logic is:
1) If the database is an empty string, pass it through (this is the most
common case as it is interpreted as "use the default folder for the
source type").
2) If the database matches a Collection ID, use the ID (this is the same as
the previous behaviour).
3) If the database matches a folder path name, with an optional leading "/",
use the Collection ID for the matching folder.
4) Otherwise, force a FolderSync to get the latest folder changes from the
server and repeat steps 2 and 3
5) If still no match, throw an error.
* ActiveSync: support for listing databases
Now --print-databases scans folders on the ActiveSync server and
shows suitable folders for the ActiveSync backends instead of the
previous, hard-coded help text.
Invoking --print-databases can be used as a workaround for
"SyncFolder error: Invalid synchronization key" errors. A better
solution would be to do that automatically, but there was no time
to implement that. See FDO #61869 and "[SyncEvolution] Activesync server losing state"
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mobile.syncevolution/4295
* command line: show backend error when listing databases fails
The command line swallowed errors thrown by the backend while listing
databases. Instead it just showed "<backend name>: backend failed". The goal
was to not distract users who accidentally access a non-functional backend.
But the result is that operations like --configure or --print-databases could
fail without giving the user any hint about the root cause of the issue.
Now the error explanation in all its gory details is included.
For example, not having activesyncd running leads to:
INFO] eas_contact: backend failed: fetching folder list:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.meego.activesyncd was not provided by any .service files
And running activesyncd without the necessary gconf keys shows up as:
[INFO] eas_contact: backend failed: fetching folder list:
GDBus.Error:org.meego.activesyncd.Error.AccountNotFound: Failed to find
account [syncevolution(a)lists.intel.com]
* Minor memory leak fix when using GDBus GIO: GDBusMethodInfo
Also depends on a glib fix, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695376
* build fixes
Avoid -lrt in make dependencies. Add missing pcre libs to
syncevo-dbus-server. sqlite backend needs "#include <stdio.h>"
(patch from Mario Kicherer).
1.3.99.1 => 1.3.99.2, 13.12.2012
================================
* PIM Manager searches for a caller ID ('phone' search) in EDS
directly while folks still starts up. No unification is done of
these results. Intermediate results are replaced by the final ones
from folks once those are ready.
* PIM Manager: allow configuration of session directories (part of FDO #55921)
Useful for moving the session directories to a temporary file system.
They are essentially just useful for debugging when used as part of
PIM Manager.
- "logdir" - a directory in which directories are created with
debug information about sync session
- "maxsessions" - number of sessions that are allowed to exist
after a sync (>= 0): 0 is special and means unlimited,
1 for just the latest, etc.;
old sessions are pruned heuristically (for example,
keep sessions where something changed instead of
some where nothing changed), so there is no hard
guarantee that the last n sessions are present.
* PIM Manager: write less data to disk (part of FDO #55921)
Avoid writing config file changes to disk by enabling a new
"ephemeral" mode for syncing via the PIM Manager. In this mode,
config file changes are not flushed resp. discarded directly.
This prevents writing to .ini files in ~/.config.
The "synthesis" binfile client files are still written, but they get
redirected into the session directory, which can (and should) be set
to a temp file system and get deleted again quickly.
Data dumps are turned off now in the configs created by the PIM
Manager.
* syncevo-dbus-server: use syslog instead of standard output by default
* syncevo-dbus-server: command line options for controlling
output and startup
-d, --duration=seconds/'unlimited' Shut down automatically
when idle for this duration (default 300 seconds)
-v, --verbosity=level Choose amount of output, 0 = no output,
1 = errors, 2 = info, 3 = debug; default is 1.
-o, --stdout Enable printing to stdout (result of operations)
and stderr (errors/info/debug).
-s, --no-syslog Disable printing to syslog.
-p, --start-pim Activate the PIM Manager (= unified address book)
immediately.
* PIM Manager: store set of active address books persistently (FDO #56334)
Together with storing the sort order persistently, this allows
restarting the daemon and have it create the same unified address book
again.
* PIM Manager: remove colon from valid peer UID character set (FDO #56436)
Using the UID as part of file names gets more problematic when
allowing colons. Remove that character from the API and enforce
the format in the source code.
* PIM Manager API: introduce contact ID and use it for reading
This makes it easier for a client to fully polulate its view with
contact data. Previously it could happen that due to concurrent
changes in the server, a client was returned data for the same
contact multiple times. A client had to detect that and re-issue
read requests.
* PIM Manager API: optional ViewAgent.Quiescent() (FDO #56428)
The callback is guaranteed to be invoked once when a search has
finished sending its initial results, and not sooner. This makes it
possible to check whether the current data contains some contact or
not.
* PIM Manager: limit number of search results (FDO #56142)
A 'limit' search term with a number as parameter (formatted as string)
can be added to a 'phone' or 'any-contains' search term to truncate the
search results after a certain number of contacts. Example:
Search([['any-contains', 'Joe'], ['limit', '10']])
=> return the first 10 Joes.
As with any other search, the resulting view will be updated if
contact data changes.
The limit must not be changed in a RefineSearch(). A 'limit' term may
(but doesn't have to) be given. If it is given, its value must match
the value set when creating the search. This limitation simplifies the
implementation and its testing. The limitation could be removed if
there is sufficient demand.
* PIM Manager: fix refining a search
Due to not mapping the local index in the view to the parent's index,
refining only worked in views where parent and child had the same
index for the contacts in the search view.
* PIM Manager: fix starting when done via search
When the unified address book (= FullView) was not running yet at the
time when a client wanted to search it, the unified address book was
not started and thus the search never returned results.
* PIM Manager: fix writing contact, support photo and notes
folks and EDS do not support writing properties in parallel
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652659). Must serialize
setting of modified properties.
* PIM Manager: fix incorrect contact removal signals in filtered view
The filtered view did not check whether a parent's removed contact was
really part of the view before sending a removal signal for it.
* D-Bus: missing out parameters in D-Bus introspection XML (FDO #57292)
The problem was in the C++ D-Bus binding. If the method that gets bound
to D-Bus returns a value, that value was ignored in the signature:
int foo() => no out parameter
It works when the method was declared as having a retval:
void foo (int &result) => integer out parameter
This problem existed for both the libdbus and the GIO D-Bus
bindings. In SyncEvolution it affected methods like GetVersions().
* PIM Manager performance: pre-compute normalized telephone numbers
Looking up by phone number spends most of its cycles in normalizing of
the phone numbers in the unified address book. Instead of doing that
work over and over again during the search, do it once while loading.
Looking up a phone number only once does not gain from this change, it
even gets slower (more memory intensive, less cache locality). Only
searching multiple times becomes faster.
Ultimately it would be best to store the normalized strings together
with the telephone number inside EDS when the contact gets
created. Work on that is in progress.
* PIM Manager: improve performance of FullView sorting
This fixes the hotspot during populating the FullView content: moving
contacts around required copying IndividualData and thus copying
complex C++ structs and strings. Storing pointers and moving those
avoids that, with no lack of convenience thanks to boost::ptr_vector.
Reordering also becomes faster, because the intermediate copy only
needs to be of the pointers instead of the full content.
* PIM Manager example: add benchmarking
The new "checkpoints" split up the whole script run into pieces which
are timed separately, with duration printed to stdout. In addition,
tools like "perf" can be started for the duration of one phase.
* EDS: fix creating databases
--create-database was broken in combination with the final code in EDS
3.6 because it passed NULL for the UID to e_source_new_with_uid(),
which is considered an error by the implementation of that
method. Must use e_source_new() if we don't have a UID.
* fixed some memory leaks, extended tests to cover new features and bugs
SyncEvolution 1.3.99.1, 25.10.2012
==================================
* workarounds for warnings from g++ 4.5
* engine: : local cache sync mode
This patch introduces support for true one-way syncing ("caching"):
the local datastore is meant to be an exact copy of the data on the
remote side. The assumption is that no modifications are ever made
locally outside of syncing. This is different from one-way sync modes,
which allows local changes and only temporarily disables sending them
to the remote side.
Another goal of the new mode is to avoid data writes as much as
possible.
This new mode only works on the server side of a sync, where the
engine has enough control over the data flow. Setting "sync" to:
- "local-cache-incremental" will do an incremental sync (if possible)
or a slow sync (otherwise). This is usually the right mode to use,
and thus has "local-cache" as alias.
- "local-cache-slow" will always do a slow sync. Useful for
debugging or after (accidentally) making changes on the local side.
An incremental sync will ignore such changes because they are not
meant to happen, aren't checked for to improve performance and
thus will leave client and server out-of-sync!
Both modes are recorded in the sync report of the local side. The
target side is the client and records the normal "two-way" or "slow"
sync modes.
With the current SyncEvolution contact field list, first, middle and
last name are used to find matches for contacts. For events, tasks
and memos, time, summary and description are used.
* HTTP proxy: useProxy=0 overrides http_* env variables
Previously, if http_proxy was set, a proxy was used even if
explicitly disabled. This prevented disabling the use of a proxy
which only made sense in some cases, like accessing something
that runs locally. Explicitly telling SyncEvolution to ignore
http_proxy is necessary because it doesn't support no_proxy.
* WebDAV: auto-discovery fix
With Google Contact + CardDAV the auto-discovery failed after
finding the default address book, without reporting that result.
* command line: implement --create/remove-database
Creating a database is only possible with a chosen name. The UID is
chosen automatically by the storage. Only implemented in the EDS
backend.
* file backend: sub-second mod time stamps
Change tracking in the file backend used to be based on the
modification time in seconds. When running many syncs quickly (as in
testing), that can lead to changes not being detected when they happen
within a second. Now the file backend also includes the sub-second part of the
modification time stamp, if available.
This change is relevant when upgrading SyncEvolution: most of the
items will be considered "updated" once during the first sync after
the upgrade (or a downgrade) because the revision strings get
calculated differently.
* D-Bus server: avoid progress outside of 0-100% range
For example in the new TestLocalCache.testItemDelete100, the
percentage value in the ProgressChanged signal become larger
than 100 and then revert to 100 at the end of the sync.
Seems the underlying calculation is faulty or simply inaccurate.
This is not fixed. Instead the result is just clipped to the valid
range.
* code cleanup + improvements in testing
Source, Installation, Further information
=========================================
http://syncevolution.org/blogs/pohly/2013/syncevolution-13993-released
Source code bundles for users are available in
http://downloads.syncevolution.org/syncevolution/sources
and the original source is in the git repositories
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/SyncEvolution/
i386, lpia and amd64 binaries for Debian-based distributions are
available via the "unstable" syncevolution.org repository. Add the
following entry to your /apt/source.list:
deb http://downloads.syncevolution.org/apt unstable main
Then install "syncevolution-evolution", "syncevolution-kde" and/or
"syncevolution-activesync".
These binaries include the "sync-ui" GTK GUI and were compiled for
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid), except for "syncevolution-activesync" which
depends on libraries in Debian Squeeze, for example EDS 3.4.
Older distributions like Debian 4.0 (Etch) can no longer be supported
with precompiled binaries because of missing libraries, but the source
still compiles when not enabling the GUI (the default).
The same binaries are also available as .tar.gz and .rpm archives in
http://downloads.syncevolution.org/syncevolution/. In contrast
to 0.8.x archives, the 1.x .tar.gz archives have to be unpacked and the
content must be moved to /usr, because several files would not be found
otherwise.
After installation, follow the
http://syncevolution.org/documentation/getting-started steps. More
specific HOWTOs can be found in the Wiki:
https://syncevolution.org/wiki/howto
--
Patrick Ohly, on behalf of everyone who has helped
to make SyncEvolution possible:
http://syncevolution.org/about/contributors